Online ordering system for Castle Point takeaways and restaurants

Chefzi is an online ordering system for takeaways and restaurants in Castle Point: your own ordering site and branded Android app (iOS coming soon), 0% commission, plans from £9 a month billed yearly, first month free with no card, month to month with no contract. The FSA register lists 79 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 105 restaurant and café premises in Castle Point (pulled 13 November 2026).

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How many takeaways and restaurants Castle Point has

Castle Point registers 537 food businesses of every kind with the Food Standards Agency. 79 of them are takeaway or sandwich shop premises and 105 are restaurants, cafés or canteens. Among the 45 councils the FSA lists in East of England, Castle Point is number 29 for takeaway premises.

Restaurants and cafés (105) outnumber takeaways (79), but takeaways are still about 15% of the 537 food premises of every kind that Castle Point registers.

Takeaway density: 8.7 premises per 10,000 residents (population 90,613, ONS mid-2025 estimate), close to 9.1 across the UK and 7.2 in East of England. Visitors and commuters are not counted in the population, so town centres read high.

Hygiene results for takeaways

73 takeaway premises in Castle Point have a published rating. 89% of them hold a 5, against 62% across England (+27.0 points), and 0% are rated 0 to 2. In East of England as a whole, 67.4% of rated takeaways hold a 5, so Castle Point is above its region.

6 takeaway premises are shown as awaiting inspection and 28 (35%) had a rating date in the last 12 months. With so many 5s, a 4 or below stands out to a customer scrolling through options, so show your rating and fix anything that holds it down. How hygiene ratings work for takeaways.

Postcode districts and delivery zones

the three with the most are SS7 (41), SS8 (38).

Food premises in Castle Point are close together: 100% sit within 3 miles of the middle of the area (half are within 1.7 miles). A single postcode-based delivery zone per kitchen works well, and a short collection time is the main selling point. Chefzi's delivery zones are set by postcode or radius, with a minimum order and fee per zone.

What stands out in Castle Point

• 8% of takeaway premises (6) are still awaiting their first inspection, which usually means recent openings, so new competitors are arriving.
• Castle Point has 1.5 times as many takeaway premises as Rochford (54), its nearest neighbour by food-premises centre.
• Takeaways are a bigger part of the picture here than in most places: there are 1.3 restaurants and cafés for every takeaway in Castle Point, against about 2.3 across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
• SS7 alone holds 52% of the takeaway premises in Castle Point (41 of 79), so a kitchen there is competing with a dense cluster for the same customers.
• Castle Point has the number 8 most takeaway premises of the 14 council areas in Essex.

The kitchens behind the names in Castle Point

Counting premises whose trading name contains a cuisine word (a rough guide, not a cuisine census), Castle Point has one word that reaches 10: 13 Indian-style.

Counts are premises, takeaway plus restaurant and café, whose registered trading name contains the word. A name without the word is not counted, so treat them as a floor.

Indian or curry is the cuisine word that sets Castle Point apart. It appears in 13 of the area's 184 food premises (7.1%), where the UK rate is 2.2%, or 3.3 times as often (FSA, 13 November 2026). 8 of the 13 are in SS7, a district with 41 registered takeaways of every kind. Of the 12 rated Indian or curry-named premises, 83% hold a 5, against 89.0% of rated takeaways of every cuisine in Castle Point. If you run an Indian restaurant here, expect more similarly named rivals than in most areas; your own ordering page is the one place none of them appears beside you. These are name-keyword counts, a floor rather than a census.

Late-night hot food in Castle Point: the council's own page

Serving hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am normally needs a late night refreshment licence under the Licensing Act 2003, issued by the local council. Castle Point's council publishes its process here: Castle Point council licensing page (checked 13 November 2026). Check it before you open your ordering hours past 11pm.

The general rules, the 11pm to 5am window and what to ask are in the late night refreshment licence guide. Chefzi lets you set collection and delivery hours separately, so ordering hours can follow whatever your licence conditions say. This is general information, not legal advice.

Castle Point and the areas around it

Main places in the Castle Point council area include Canvey Island (about 38,000 people in the 2021 built-up area).

Part of Essex, with Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Colchester and Epping Forest.

Nearest council areas by the centre of their food premises (distance between centres):

Set-ups for the kitchens here: Indian restaurants, or online ordering for takeaways.

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Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), Open Government Licence v3.0, pulled 13 November 2026. Takeaway/sandwich shop and restaurant/café/canteen business types.
• Office for National Statistics, 2021 Census built-up area populations.
• Council licensing page linked above, opened 13 November 2026.